Katherine Dunham's Island Possessed PDF

By Katherine Dunham

ISBN-10: 0226171132

ISBN-13: 9780226171135

simply as without doubt as Haiti is "possessed" by way of the gods and spirits of vaudun (voodoo), the island "possessed" Katherine Dunham while she first went there in 1936 to check dance and formality. during this e-book, Dunham unearths how her anthropological study, her paintings in dance, and her fascination for the folk and cults of Haiti labored their spell, catapulting her into studies that she was once frequently fortunate to outlive. right here Dunham tells how the island got here to be possessed through the demons of voodoo and different cults imported from a number of components of Africa, in addition to by way of the deep type divisions, relatively among blacks and mulattos, and the political hatred nonetheless a great deal in proof at the present time. filled with the flare and suspense of immersion in an odd and spell binding tradition, Island Possessed can be a pioneering paintings within the anthropology of dance and a desirable record on Haitian politics and voodoo.

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